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公开(公告)号：US20250116445A1
公开(公告)日：2025-04-10
申请号：US18982830
申请日：2024-12-16
Applicant: True Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Inventor： Kevin Knatt
Abstract: An ice maker includes an evaporator configured to freeze water into ice as it flows vertically down a freeze plate. A distributor distributes the water along the top of the freeze plate to form ice across the width of the freeze plate as the water flows downward along the freeze plate. The distributor can be integrated into the evaporator. For example, the distributor and evaporator can have a part in common. The distributor can be formed from two pieces that come together to form the freeze plate. The distributor can have various features that aid in providing a desirable distribution of water along the width of the freeze plate. The freeze plate can be mounted in an ice maker enclosure in thermal communication with the evaporator and to slant forward.
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公开(公告)号：US20240027119A1
公开(公告)日：2024-01-25
申请号：US18479552
申请日：2023-10-02
Applicant: True Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Inventor： Kevin Knatt , Curt Cayemberg
CPC classification number: F25C1/25 , F25C1/10 , F25C2400/10 , F25C2400/14 , F25C2700/04
Abstract: An ice maker includes a water system that delivers water from a water reservoir to an ice formation device. A mount can hold one or both of a fitting of a water level sensor and a water pump in relation to the water reservoir. For example, the mount can include integral features that lock with the fitting to mount the fitting on the ice maker at a sensing position. The mount can include integral features that form a bayonet connection with a portion of the pump. A vertical support wall can included integrated features for supporting the mount in relation to the water reservoir.
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公开(公告)号：US11846459B2
公开(公告)日：2023-12-19
申请号：US17570860
申请日：2022-01-07
Applicant: True Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Inventor： Kevin Knatt
IPC: F25C1/25 , F25C1/12 , F28D1/047 , F25B39/02 , F25B47/02 , F25B25/00 , F25B40/00 , F25B5/02 , F25B6/02
CPC classification number: F25C1/25 , F25B39/02 , F25B47/022 , F25C1/12 , F28D1/0477 , F25B5/02 , F25B6/02 , F25B25/005 , F25B40/00 , F25B2339/023 , F25B2400/06 , F25B2400/12 , F25C2600/04 , F28F2210/10
Abstract: An ice making machine having a refrigeration system designed for hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerants, and particularly propane (R-290), that includes dual independent refrigeration systems and a unique evaporator assembly comprising of a single freeze plate attached to two cooling circuits. The serpentines are designed in an advantageous pattern that promotes efficiency by ensuring the even bridging of ice during freezing and minimizing unwanted melting during harvest by providing an even distribution of the heat load. The charge limitations imposed with flammable refrigerants would otherwise prevent large capacity ice maker from being properly charged with a single circuit. The ice making machine includes a single water circuit and control system to ensure the proper and efficient production of ice. Material cost is conserved as compared to a traditional dual system icemaker.
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公开(公告)号：US20230272959A1
公开(公告)日：2023-08-31
申请号：US18314887
申请日：2023-05-10
Applicant: True Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Inventor： Kevin Knatt
CPC classification number: F25C1/25 , F25C1/12 , F25C2400/14 , F25C2600/04 , F25C2700/04
Abstract: A batch ice maker can execute a pulsed fill routine in which a control system pulses water from a water supply into the sump until the sump reaches a predefined freeze routine starting level. Pulsing may begin after continuously filling the sump to a fill-approach level. A batch ice maker can execute a differential freeze routine in which the control system circulates water from a sump to an ice formation device until water level decreases by a predefined differential amount from a high control water level based on the water level in the sump at a point in time after the sump was filled to a freeze routine starting level. The high control water level can be set based on water level in the sump when sump water temperature reaches a predefined pre-chill temperature. The predefined pre-chill temperature can be associated with a switchover from sensible cooling to latent cooling.
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公开(公告)号：US20210222934A1
公开(公告)日：2021-07-22
申请号：US16746833
申请日：2020-01-18
Applicant: True Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Inventor： Kevin Knatt
Abstract: An ice maker includes an evaporator configured to freeze water into ice as it flows vertically down a freeze plate. A distributor distributes the water along the top of the freeze plate to form ice across the width of the freeze plate as the water flows downward along the freeze plate. The distributor can be integrated into the evaporator. For example, the distributor and evaporator can have a part in common. The distributor can be formed from two pieces that come together to form the freeze plate. The distributor can have various features that aid in providing a desirable distribution of water along the width of the freeze plate. The freeze plate can be mounted in an ice maker enclosure in thermal communication with the evaporator and to slant forward.
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公开(公告)号：US20200033043A1
公开(公告)日：2020-01-30
申请号：US16590484
申请日：2019-10-02
Applicant: True Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Inventor： Kevin Knatt
Abstract: An ice making machine having a refrigeration system designed for hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerants, and particularly propane (R-290), that includes dual independent refrigeration systems and a unique evaporator assembly comprising of a single freeze plate attached to two cooling circuits. The serpentines are designed in an advantageous pattern that promotes efficiency by ensuring the even bridging of ice during freezing and minimizing unwanted melting during harvest by providing an even distribution of the heat load. The charge limitations imposed with flammable refrigerants would otherwise prevent large capacity ice maker from being properly charged with a single circuit. The ice making machine includes a single water circuit and control system to ensure the proper and efficient production of ice. Material cost is conserved as compared to a traditional dual system icemaker.
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公开(公告)号：US12259167B2
公开(公告)日：2025-03-25
申请号：US18413907
申请日：2024-01-16
Applicant: True Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Inventor： Kevin Knatt
Abstract: An ice maker includes an evaporator configured to freeze water into ice as it flows vertically down a freeze plate. A distributor distributes the water along the top of the freeze plate to form ice across the width of the freeze plate as the water flows downward along the freeze plate. The distributor can be integrated into the evaporator. For example, the distributor and evaporator can have a part in common. The distributor can be formed from two pieces that come together to form the freeze plate. The distributor can have various features that aid in providing a desirable distribution of water along the width of the freeze plate. The freeze plate can be mounted in an ice maker enclosure in thermal communication with the evaporator and to slant forward.
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公开(公告)号：USD1025141S1
公开(公告)日：2024-04-30
申请号：US29721224
申请日：2020-01-18
Applicant: True Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Designer： Kevin Knatt
Abstract: FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a first embodiment of an appliance grill installed on an ice maker;
FIG. 2 is an upper-right perspective view of the first embodiment of the appliance grill;
FIG. 3 is a lower-right perspective view of thereof;
FIG. 4 is a lower-left perspective view thereof;
FIG. 5 is a front view thereof; and,
FIG. 6 is a right view thereof.
Dot-dash lines indicate the boundaries between claimed and unclaimed subject matter.
Elements shown in dash-dash line form no part of the claimed design.
Aspects of the appliance grill that are not shown in the design drawings (e.g., the rear of the appliance grill) form no part of the claimed design.-
公开(公告)号：US11821669B2
公开(公告)日：2023-11-21
申请号：US18178322
申请日：2023-03-03
Applicant: True Manufacturing Co, Inc.
Inventor： Kevin Knatt , Edward Hartman
CPC classification number: F25C1/12 , B23P15/26 , F25B39/00 , F25B39/02 , F25B39/022 , F25B2339/023
Abstract: An ice maker evaporator assembly having an evaporator pan with a back wall and left, right, top and bottom sidewalls extending from the back wall, and a freeze plate located within the evaporator pan. Refrigerant tubing is thermally coupled to the back wall of the evaporator pan opposite the left, right, top and bottom sidewalls. A first layer of insulation is formed on the refrigerant tubing. An evaporator housing having a housing back wall and housing left, right, top and bottom sidewalls extending from the housing back wall is attached to the evaporator pan and covers refrigerant tubing. A second layer of insulation is formed on top of the first layer of insulation.
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公开(公告)号：US20230189453A1
公开(公告)日：2023-06-15
申请号：US18167400
申请日：2023-02-10
Applicant: True Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Inventor： Kevin Knatt , Curt Cayemberg
CPC classification number: H05K5/0018 , H05K5/0017 , H05K5/0204 , F25C5/24
Abstract: A refrigeration appliance has an enclosure that defines an electronics module recess and a detachable electronics module that can be releasably retained in the recess. Tabs and tab receivers can be integrated with the electronics module and enclosure to releasably retain the electronics module in the recess. A trim piece can releasably attach to a display bezel of the electronics module by a snap-fit connection to retain the electronics module in the electronics module recess. In use, the electronics module can be selectively removed and a data acquisition device can be connected to the appliance using a data connector that is exposed by removing the electronics module.
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